Homeschooling

Homeschooling Post PSLE FAQs to help those considering homeschooling their teenager.

Post PSLE Homeschooling FAQs

Post PSLE, there is no longer any Law that dictates our choice and mode of education. This can be exciting or scary. If you have been considering continuing to homeschool, let me encourage you that God is faithful and He will empower you. And if He has called/nudged/pushed you to homeschool even the secondary school years, you can do it because of His grace is all you need! Read more…

Pray and Work. We have to both pray AND work Praying alone will not get our work done. We have to pray and then do the work.

Do the Work

Tough love ahead: friends, there is work to be done and we need to do the work. If we want results, we need to work. There is no such thing as overnight successes. And sometimes the work is plain hard. No matter how much we try to work smart, some work is just hard. And we just need to put in the hours. Read more…

Our Homeschool Schedule

Our Homeschool Schedule (6 weeks on, 1 week off)

Since I was only homeschooling the P2 boy (I don’t consider the pre-school years formal homeschooling), the school workload for him was tiny. So, I decided to do school for 4 weeks and take 1 week off all year round instead. Christmas and Chinese New Year would have a 2-week break. And we would take off on each of our birthdays and Public Holidays. Read more…

Slow, small and steady steps help you achieve your goals

Take Slow, Small, and Steady Steps to Achieve Your Goals

Why do so many people fail at their New Year resolutions? It is because the steps required to achieve their goals is unsustainable in the long run. In other words, they couldn’t keep up with the changes. They are over-ambitious and set up overly big goals that require too many changes to happen to get there. I say, “slow, small, and steady steps wins the race.” Read more…. Read more…

31 Days of Large Homeschooling Family

Planning Keeps Homeschooling on Track in Our Large Family

Planning holds the key to sanity in our large family in every aspect of our lives. Homeschool planning is no different. It keeps everyone on track. With my master plan, I know that each child would be able to finish up the syllabus on time and have enough time to practice with exam papers. I don’t have to guess and hope for the best at the end of the year. Read more…

PSLE Round 5

PSLE Round 5 and Other Homeschooling Matters

PSLE Round 5. Here we go again, and I am not even close to being done with PSLE! In today’s post, I share how we prepare for the oral exams and then get the children ready for PSLE with our own homeschool prelims. The prelims are more for familiarising the children with exam etiquette more than anything else.  Read more…

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